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Clint’s Classic Clips: Doug Sahm “(Is Anybody Goin’ To) San Antone” live in Austin 1975

June 10, 2021 Clint West 0
Welcome to a new weekly series where I will be trawling through the archives to find video gems both from across the americana spectrum and through the years. For the first of my choices I have […]
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: New Riders of the Purple Sage “New Riders of the Purple Sage”

June 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 8
Named for a Zane Grey novel and often unfairly judged to be just an adjunct of the Grateful Dead, not surprisingly due to the presence of key New Riders’ personnel on early Dead albums, and the […]
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Welcome to The Twang Factor 2, AUK’s platform for new and emerging acts

June 9, 2021 Clint West 0
Following a very successful inaugural series, The Twang Factor is back to bring you the best new and emerging americana acts. Yes, AUK is running a new season of The Twang Factor, a showcase for new, […]
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‘Readers’ Picks’ – let us know your favourite americana song and we’ll run it on the site

June 8, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
We want your suggestions for great tracks, video clips, hidden gems or personal favourites. ‘Readers’ Picks’ invites you to send us your suggestions for a piece of music that you love and that you think others […]
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A Night to Remember: Andrew Combs, Country 2 Country, March 13th 2016

June 8, 2021 Ewan Lury 4
When people ask me who the best people I’ve ever seen live are, I would often say Springsteen, Brothers Osborne or Chris Stapleton. The fact that Chris Stapleton played at the gig I’m writing about and […]

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Bob Dylan to unleash a 39 CD set of The Rolling Thunder Revue in November – start saving!

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Live Review: Levellers, The Meffs, Brakes, Kid Kapichi and Sleeper, Hove Park, Brighton – 5th September 2026

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Something for the weekend: Listen to the unreleased Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers track from 1978 “Parade Of Loons”

September 25, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a previously unreleased song from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. His estate recently unveiled a comprehensive new box set, Origins 1971-1978, […]
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Bob Dylan to unleash a 39 CD set of The Rolling Thunder Revue in November – start saving!

September 25, 2026 0
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalogue division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings on November 6th. The 39-CD box (I say again, 39!!!) set captures […]
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There are only 50 tickets left for Americana 25 – join us in Liverpool in November!

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If you’ve been mulling it over for a while, then mull no more! We are now down to our last 50 odd tickets for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes […]

  • Something for the weekend: Listen to the unreleased Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers track from 1978 “Parade Of Loons”
  • Bob Dylan to unleash a 39 CD set of The Rolling Thunder Revue in November – start saving!
  • There are only 50 tickets left for Americana 25 – join us in Liverpool in November!
  • Beck “Ride Lonesome”
  • Live Review: Levellers, The Meffs, Brakes, Kid Kapichi and Sleeper, Hove Park, Brighton – 5th September 2026
  • Josh Ritter is coming this way in January – Happy New Year!
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Israel Nash and Sid Griffin
  • Leon III “Invisible Ink” – heating the lemon juice
  • Video Premiere: The Cashville Trash Pandas “Worker’s Song (Handful of Earth)”
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  • Angus MacSwan: "Ride Lonesome" is also a good Western starring Randolph Scott and directed by Budd Boetticher. Any connection, I wonder?
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

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Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Book Review: Max Wareham “Rudy Lyle: The Unsung Hero of the Five-String Banjo”

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Max Wareham is well placed to write a book on the five-string banjo- he plays the instrument in the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band and has had a long career as a music tutor and himself studied […]
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Billy Strings “Me/And/Dad”

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Exciting collection of bluegrass covers from singer-songwriter and guitar god Billy Strings and his father, guitarist Terry Barber. Billy Strings can shred on guitar with the kind of diabolical speed and agility normally attributed to the […]
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Static Roots Festival, Zentrum Altenberg, Oberhausen, Germany, 12-13th July 2019

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It’s festival season for sure as hordes of music fans pack both wellies and sun cream as they head off for a weekend of unbridled fun. Be it the massive set up at Glastonbury or the […]

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